[CougarGA7]

I agree with that assessment. The Japanese really were faced with a choice to acquire the resources they needed. They could:

1. Invade eastern Russia for the oil fields and raw materials there.

2. Target the resources, including Dutch oil resources in the southern islands from Sumatra to New Guinea.

The black eye they received from Zhukov helped steer that decision which took a declaration of war on Russia in 1940 off the table for them since they knew at that point that they would have to face the United States. There was also an internal struggle going on between the Japanese Army and Navy at the time which also influenced this decision.

Hey Homer, I got my books for my second semester. 20 of the darn things with the shortest being 400 pages. How the heck I’m going to read that much in 16 weeks is beyond me. But included was West Point’s atlas of the Pacific theater. A lot of the maps in it are the same ones that are on the Military Channel’s website, but there are a bunch of additional ones. I’ll have to scan some of these in as we go through those events. That and I might see if I can find the European theater equivalent.

[investigateworld]

If the old gray cells are correct, the IJN want the "Southern Option", taking the Oil field of the Dutch East Indies. The Army wanted the "Western Option, taking Russia's resources. I don't believe any Japanese planners ever viewed taking the US.

But I could be wrong.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

But included was West Point’s atlas of the Pacific theater. A lot of the maps in it are the same ones that are on the Military Channel’s website, but there are a bunch of additional ones. I’ll have to scan some of these in as we go through those events. That and I might see if I can find the European theater equivalent.

The top map on my profile is from the West Point European theatre atlas. The second one is from Asia and the Pacific. Where does one find maps at militarychannel.com?